On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 22:07 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: 
> @        IN     NS      216.104.158.222
> @        IN     NS      216.104.128.37
> @        IN     NS      216.104.128.38

Specifying IP's for NS'es is illegal - NS'es should be hostnames - 
themselves posessing A or AAAA records (for the interest of quick lookup 
times these hostnames should be from within the domain they're NS'ing 
for...)  In other words, you should have:

@ IN NS ns1
@ IN NS ns2
@ IN NS ns3
ns1 IN A 216.104.158.222
ns2 IN A 216.104.128.37
ns3 IN A 216.104.128.38


> wa4phy.net.             A       216.104.158.222
this is just "@ A ..."
> vortex.wa4phy.net.      A       216.104.158.222
this is just "vortex A ..."
> ns.wa4phy.net.          A       216.104.158.222
this is just "ns A ..."
> localhost               A       127.0.0.1
this is weird because it is localhost.wa4phy.net. A 127.0.0.1
> 1       IN      PTR             localhost.wa4phy.net.
Ah so maybe the weird localhost is what you wanted?

Cheers,
MaZe.

Ok.. I made some edits, and before I do a restart, if you don't mind, take a look at the revised zone file.  I think I got the idea what you were talking about.  here's the edited file......

@       IN      SOA     wa4phy.net. root.wa4phy.net. (
                        2005122901      ; Serial, todays date + todays serial #
                        8H              ; Refresh, seconds
                        2H              ; retry, seconds
                        1W              ; expire, seconds
                        1D )            ; minimum, seconds
@        IN     NS      ns.wa4phy.net.
@        IN     NS      ns5.gabn.net.
@        IN     NS      ns6.gabn.net.

ns1     IN      A       216.104.158.222
ns2     IN      A       216.104.128.37
ns3     IN      A       216.104.128.38

wa4phy.net.             A       216.104.158.222
vortex.wa4phy.net.      A       216.104.158.222
ns.wa4phy.net.          A       216.104.158.222
localhost.              A       127.0.0.1
                        MX      10 wa4phy.net.  ;Primary Mail Exchanger
                        MX      20 smtp7.bagger.usbn.net. ;Secondary MX

www                     CNAME   wa4phy.net.
ftp                     CNAME   wa4phy.net.